riverfront

noun

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Recent Examples of riverfront The hotel is the most ambitious project on the riverfront, which had been a sketchy area on the fringe of downtown Savannah but is now coming back to life with bars, restaurants, and gift shops. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Oct. 2026 At the park where the Rogerses lived, five campers now sit on riverfront lots where mobile homes were anchored into the soil until Helene hit. — Ren Larson, ProPublica, 28 Sep. 2026 My lab at Carnegie Mellon University is just 2 miles from Hazelwood Green, a 178-acre former industrial site at Pittsburgh’s riverfront along the Monongahela River. — Catherine Armbruster, The Conversation, 17 Sep. 2026 The plan also includes retail, entertainment and about 18 acres of new public space along the riverfront. — Elaine Rojas-Castillo, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for riverfront
Recent Examples of Synonyms for riverfront
  1. riverside
  2. waterfront
  3. riverbank
  4. oceanfront
  5. shorefront
Noun
  • The resort town famous for its riverside hot springs suffered flooding from a similar weather pattern a year ago.
    — Mead Gruver, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
  • For something quieter, there’s a riverside interpretive trail along the Nenana.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of riverside
Noun
  • Where to Stay Imagine jetting off to Stockholm to visit your art collector pals in their private waterfront residence.
    — Isabelle Kliger, Vogue, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Also under this rule, responsibility for waterfront construction permitting would also be transferred from the Department of Small Business Services to the Department of Buildings.
    — Digital Producer, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of waterfront
Noun
  • Tucked along the riverbank beside quiet hamlets, andBeyond Punakha River Lodge offers an uncommon sense of complete seclusion.
    — Luke Abrahams, Vogue, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Trying to allay other concerns, officials say sand for concrete used in the construction will come from an artificial lake, not the Mekong river, where sand mining has worsened riverbank erosion and altered its stream.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of riverbank
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  • The rooms Rooms are clean and bright, content to sit back, relax, and let the killer oceanfront views do much of the work where possible; first order of business are massive windows and glass doors leading out onto generous balconies.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Work at the oceanfront building has been underway for five years.
    — Joan Murray, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of oceanfront
Noun
  • And both suggested staying at the shorefront Watkins Glen Harbor Hotel, which is among the nicer properties in the area.
    — Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 9 May 2026
  • The shorefront is lined with some 400 buildings, including high-rise hotels and villas that can accommodate around 20,000 guests, according to North Korean state media.
    — Se Eun Gong, NPR, 5 July 2025
Definition of shorefront

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